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Two former Parramatta Eels players are accused of harbouring semi-automatic weapons and possessing more than half-a-million dollars in cash after dramatic arrests in Sydney's Centennial Park yesterday.

Major crime detectives have swarmed on a remote area of South Australia’s mid-north after receiving new information in the hunt for young girls Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon, who disappeared from Adelaide Oval more than four decades ago.

Joanne, 11, and Kirste, 4, went missing from Adelaide Oval in 1973 after Joanne took Kirste to the toilet.

Their disappearance has baffled South Australian police, who started a fresh investigation two years ago.

Earlier this week around 30 officers converged on a property at Yatina, 30km north of Jamestown, where authorities have been told Joanne and Kirste were raped and ultimately murdered.

So far nothing has been found but police have vowed not to give up.

Two deep wells were excavated but due to safety reasons officers have not yet been able to reach the bottom and may reattend the site.

The previous owner of the property, Stanley Arthur Hart, has an uncanny resemblance to the image of a suspect in the case and was interviewed multiple times by police before his death in 1999.